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Iditarod 2011: Who will win As the top mushers get ready to take their mandatory 24 rest who is your favorite to win this year’s Iditarod? This year’s winner will receive $50,400 and a new Dodge truck when their dog team crosses first under the burled arch in Nome.

The buzz around Fourth Avenue in Anchorage at the ceremonial start for this year’s Iditarod is that musher number 34 Paul Gebhardt would give Lance Mackey a run for his money. Gebhardt’s dog truck was sitting right next to us at the staging area for the start, one that he shared with Kristy Berington (#7) and the talk amongst the …

On yesterday’s episode of Mush! You Huskies we spoke about a little known fact about the Iditarod. Leased teams. While leasing a team to run The Last Great Race, is not new and has been around for years, it is something that the casual fan doesn’t know much about. According to our Iditarod expert on Mush! You Huskies, 7-time Iditarod …

As of the last report the mushers and snowmachiner’s are at Old Woman cabin and will run into Unalakleet today. Unalakleet the biggest town between Anchorage and Nome and is the first checkpoint on the notorious coast. Unalakleet has been made famous recently on the Discovery Channel show, Flying Wild Alaska about the Tweto family and its bush pilots. Unalakleet …

We are only two and a half days into the 2011 Iditarod and we already have two scratches. Melissa Owens of Nome, and Zoya DeNure of Gakona. Both of the musher’s Iditarod dreams come to a screeching halt in a notorious portion of the trail, Rainy Pass. Owens, aggravated a leg injury that happened before the race even started scratched …

Well, that’s it. Either Big Brother is watching me, or I am updating my viewing habits on iPhone apps like Into_Now too much, or I can finally quote my favorite movie scene of all time: The other day I got a large packet in the mail from none other than Mr. Nielsen himself. Yep, that guy! The guy that wants …

On Mush! You Huskies radio show last night we talked about the mandatory gear that every musher MUST carry in his sled during the Iditarod. According to the official rules of the Iditarod it says: Rule 16: Mandatory Items: A musher must carry with him/her at all times the following items: Proper cold weather sleeping bag weighing a minimum of …